Jumping to Conclusions
Jumping to conclusions is what happens when a decision is made with
little or no evidence. For example, anxious thoughts such as "I'm going
to faint" or “I’m going to collapse” could be considered jumping to a
conclusions if the person has never fainted or collapsed during a panic
attack.
A second kind of jumping to conclusions happens when people
overestimate the chance of something happening. For example, a person
with agoraphobia might say they have a 100% chance of having a panic
attack if they go to the store.In fact the chances are a lot less.
Another person might think: "Everyone will notice me shaking" when in
fact most people probably are going about their own business and aren’t
watching that closely.
